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Opening
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Opening Music
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Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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Band's MySpace page
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Sponsor
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Smile
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Smilesoftware.com
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PDFPen 5.0 is now available
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Search and replace or Search and redact
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Redact feature will black out your selected text to protect sensitive information
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Works with OCR'd text too.
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More advanced image adjustment and enhancement features
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Better performance, including multi-core support for OCR.
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Free trail available.
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News
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Apple's entertainment interests grow
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According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Apple has entered into a multi-year licensing deal with Rovi.
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The filing doesn't specify what was licensed.
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According to the Rovi website they are, "global leader in digital entertainment technology solutions."
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If your like me you didn't recognize the name Rovi, but you may know their prior name, "Macrovision"
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They have a catalog of entertainment metadata for TV, movies, music and games.
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This is speculated to be what Apple may be licensing
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The companies site lists their program guide and copy protection technologies as what they license.
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Gene Munster see the deal as more evidence that Apple is working on dedicate TV and DVR products that they will release in the next 2-4 years.
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Way to stretch Gene.
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Security Update 2010-006
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Addresses a vulnerability in AFP (Apple File Sharing Protocol).
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A remote attacker may access AFP shared folders without a valid password
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An error handling issue exists in AFP Server. A remote attacker with knowledge of an account name on a target system may bypass the password validation and access AFP shared folders. By default, File Sharing is not enabled. This issue does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.6. Credit to Pike School in Massachusetts for reporting this issue.
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Apple's mobile profit vs unit sales
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Canaccord Genuity and IDC posted numbers that show how Apple's mobile market share has little to due with the short term impact to their bottom line
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From January to June 2010 Apple's unit share of mobile handset sales was around 3%. Their share of the industry profits however, 39%.
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That beats out Nokia, Samsung, and LG who's combined handset profits accounted for 32% of the industry profits so far this year.
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Canaccord Genuity estimates that Apple gets a 50% gross margin on iPhone sales with an operating margin above 30% while more others in the industry eek a 10% operating margin.
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Apple readying CDMA iPhone for launch?
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We continue to hear rumors of Apple prepping a CDMA iPhone
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This time from an analyst who says he's checked with Asian suppliers who are set to make 3 million shiny new "Verizion-ready" devices in December.
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Pegatron Technology has been signed to start building CDMA-based iPhone 4 models in November, and is expected to ship upwards of 10 million units by mid-2011
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Most are convinced that Apple will end the AT&T exclusivity in the US and add Verizon
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I think it's time.
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With european sales numbers braking records, we've already seen how opening up carrier partners can fatten Apple's bottom line.
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Rumors of a Qualcomm deal
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A new survey from Credit Suisse says 23% of AT&T iPhone customers are ready to jump ship when and if Verizon gets the device.
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Despite all the blogosphere's wishful thinking
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Verizon's CEO said they want Apple, but they need to "earn" it.
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Statement seems to point to their build-out of LTE network and showing they are ready for the massive amounts of data traffic that crippled AT&T
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I still have a gut feeling that most if not all the initial supply of CDMA iPhone's are bound for China
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Apple TV rental battlefield
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Looks like TV execs aren't feeling Apple's $0.99 TV rentals
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First Time Warner CEO Barry Meyer and then NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said the price is just too low.
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Meyer worried the price would eat into sales of "seasons".
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Zucker claims $0.99 rentals will "de-value" their content. (I think his love for reality TV programing and for Jay Leno already accomplished that).
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Seems like a repeat of the Music industries "album" sales argument.
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Seems to me more like media "quote" fodder to attempt to keep leverage against Apple
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Both are on Hulu, with ads, but free or $9.99/mo on the new Plus service
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Both are also on Netflix streaming at $8.99/mo.
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Since the new Apple TV supports Netflix I guess in a way Apple wins whether the networks play the rental game or not.
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Drop in TV show purchases and loss of "rental" revenue since they aren't available.
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Most TV shows I don't care to own. I'm watching a TON of streaming.
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At Netflix price I estimate I'm paying $0.20 an episode.
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Updates to iWork for iOS
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Brings ability to export in Office compatible file formats for Numbers and Keynote. Pages already had .DOC export.
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Support for file transfers directly from iDisk (Mobile ME) and Web DAV servers
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Pages
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Option to display Word count
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Group and ungroup objects
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Open .txt files from Mail
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Numbers
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Open CSV files from Mail and other apps
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Group and ungroup objects
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Import and export Numbers ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
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Keynote
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Group and ungroup objects.
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Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
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Add animated builds to grouped objects.
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Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
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Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.
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All 3 apps also get numerous bug fixes and other updates
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Surprise, Apple customers generally satisfied.
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Apple topped the PC category of the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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Scored 86%, 2% higher than last years rating which was Apple's previously highest score
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Apple beat out the next highest competitors (Dell, Acer and HP) who all scored 77% (9% lower)
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On the smartphone side Apple topped the latest J.D Powers and Associates customer satisfaction survey
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Despite any "antenna issues" customers gave Apple an 800 out of 1000 score
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They had "Among the best" rankings in 5 out of 6 categories.
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Only getting an "The Rest" 2-"star" score in Battery Function (I assume because it's not removable?).
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Motorola (791) and HTC (781) and Industry Average score of (764)
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Apple TV shipping rumors
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Reports of some customers being charged late last eek
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Reports of Apple sending emails to customers who ordered Apple TV with expedited shipping.
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I haven't seen those emails and I have an order placed with overnight shipping.
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Macbook "Almost" Air rumors
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A strange report out of the DigiTimes
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Saying Quanta has orders to produce a new 11.6-inch MacBooks for Apple
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The units would also reportedly lose the internal SuperDrive in favor of an optional USB 3 external unit.
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Good news there is I guess next gen Apple products are getting USB 3 ports.
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So basically a sub-$1,000 Macbook Air? Oh, and it will land here in this year.
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And since we're miniaturizing things…
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The 7-in iPad design is finished and ready to go in Shenzhen, China.
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More like a big iPhone 4 w/o the forward facing camera (kills the rumor in my opinion).
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iTunes 10.0.1 Update
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iTunes 10.0.1 makes it easier to share your favorite music with your friends on Ping. You can now Like or Post about music right from your iTunes library.
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You can also easily see the recent activity of a selected artist in your library, or of all artists and friends you follow on Ping using the new Ping Sidebar.
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Replaces "Genius Sidebar"
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Updated Terms and Conditions
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Using the Ping Sidebar, iTunes will send information to Apple about the content you select in your iTunes library.
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Hide the Ping Sidebar or opt out of Ping to not have that data sent to Apple.
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Addresses an issue where the picture quality of a video changes depending on whether the on-screen controls are visible.
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Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit while interacting with album artwork viewed in a separate window.
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Fixes a problem that affects the performance of some third-party visualizers.
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Addresses an issue where the iTunes library and playlists appear empty.
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Resolves an issue that created an incompatibility with some third-party shared libraries.
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"Ping" dropdown next to currently playing track and when selecting other tracks in your main library
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Quickly "like" or "post" to Ping. Can also access artist profile and other iTunes Store pages.
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Daylight savings time bugs
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The States doesn't switch over until November, but in the southern hemisphere there appears to be mayhem.
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The clock app is reportedly waking up New Zealanders an hour early
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I have a listener in Brazil who has 2 October 16th. (they switch on the 17th) and when he has an event that spans the 16th and 17th and then syncs the bug manifests itself.
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Sponsor
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Kamalert
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Kamalert
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Personal safety and video surveillance app
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Can set up "panic" buttons for personal safety and medical emergencies.
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Can SMS or email preset contacts with a message and your location.
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Surveillance can use the camera to monitor for movement
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Can send pictures via SMS and email
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Sound an audible alert
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Great for traveling, keeping an eye on the cookie jar, an unruly pet, whatever.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Self diagnosing Mac issues
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Last show I said don't be afraid to take your Mac into Apple if you think you have a hardware issue.
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Concerned Genius worried that too many people would haul their systems in needlessly and create extra load on the system.
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If they can't replicate the issue then there isn't much they will be able to do.
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You need to do some things prior to taking it in. Up to and including re-installing OS X (pain in the butt, I know).
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Rule out software conflicts
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Add ons, third-party extensions and control panels, 3rd party hardware
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Update software, drivers, firmware
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Are you up-to date on your OS and Mac firmware updates?
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Re-apply the latest OS combo update for your system
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Do the "rubber-chicken" dance
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Zap the PRAM
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Run Disk Utility and verify the drive and repair permissions
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Clear the caches, rotate logs, etc.
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Create a new "test" user account
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Swap out cables
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Re-install the OS.
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Bottom line, "Beachballs happen".
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Clean out the kurfuffle.
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Hide the new "Ping" drop-down
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Quit iTunes, and open Terminal.
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Enter this line:
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defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE
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Restart iTunes.
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To reverse the setting repeat the steps and replace the "TRUE" with "FALSE".
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Running hardware tests
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Email from Hamish who is having trouble with his Power Mac. Has 8GB of OWC RAM and is concerned about RAM issues
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Main symptom is beach balls when just a few apps are open.
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He did take his system to Apple and they ran overnight tests
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Activity monitor showing low "free" memory, but high (5-6 GB) "inactive". Also high number of "page-outs".
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High "inactive" isn't much of a concern and may account for the "page-outs".
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At one point the physical memory must have been "maxed" out.
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He asked about running his own hardware tests
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Apple Hardware Test
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Used to be on a separate disk
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Newer Intel based Macs on OS DVD
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10.5.4 and earlier on Mac OS X Install Disc 1
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10.5.4 and later on Applications Install Disc 2
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Disconnect everything except Apple Mouse and Keyboard (dig 'em out if need be)
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Insert the appropriate disk and restart or boot up and holding down the "D" key.
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Old school 8-bit Mac icon with "chip" should show up on the screen.
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Perform the basic tests
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Basic tests will take several minutes
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If that doesn't find anything you can repeat and perform the "extended testing".
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Extended tests can take an hour or more.
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3rd Party testing tools
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TechTool Deluxe (Included with AppleCare)
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TechTool Pro
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Backing up movie collection
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David has been building up a movie collection mixed with iTunes purchase and his own back-ups
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iTunes stuff is in iTunes and back-ups are on an external 1TB drive (no backup)
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With hundreds of GB of data or TBs even, what to do.
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Until we have iTunes cloud we are stuck on the iTunes stuff to backing up ourselves.
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Our own stuff we also have to manage
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Solutions:
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Drobo + Cloud
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Could be another "RAID" solution
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NAS, mirrored 2 disk drive, etc.
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Move the iTunes folder to the Drobo or set up a sync of the iTunes movies folder to the Drobo as a back-up.
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I like ChronoSync for setting up automated sync. (USD $40.00)
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3 external drives
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1 is the 1TB drive you have already
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2 and 3 are clones of the 1TB. Use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner on a schedule.
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Drive 2 and 3 rotate off-site depending on the frequency of adding new content
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Drive 3 could be replaced with an off-site backup solution
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2 bare drives and a drive dock.
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Archive content to DVD as you acquire it
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If you stay on top of it this isn't a horrible solution, but it can be time consuming.
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Review: Switcheasy iPad Case
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Play review, tip and question from Steven
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Switcheasy Nude case for iPad
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Online backup service that supports NAS
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Wikipedia article with good comparison chart
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Really difficult to determine which services offer NAS support. Seems like many don't.
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I tested CrashPlan and I could get it to backup a shared drive from my Mac
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Other option may be to get a local drive and use a tool like ChronoSync to sync the data from the NAS to the local disk.
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Gives your a second local copy of critical NAS files.
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Careful as some online backup services only support the main boot drive and not even attached storage.
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Choosing off-site backup solutions
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Play question from Jake
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Drobo gives you a redundant local backup and should work well if you keep it connected locally.
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Drobo FS is their new solution for network backup
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Off-site is slow for large amounts of data
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100GB will take over a month
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Some services limit the max size of individual file and also restrict some types of files (say video).
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For off-site many of the services offer a "mail-in" option to see the data on their servers.
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Additional fees
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Have to send in your hard drive, so may need a second drive.
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DIY using external drives or bare drive docks.
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How big an iPad do you need?
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Play question from Garrett
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Covered travel and the iPad on a recent Maccast Member episode.
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Usage and what other devices will determine your size.
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Games (esp. 3D ones), media, video, etc.
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Large PDF documents (construction and drafting plans)
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Do you use another device for your media?
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Closing
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Mac Computer Expo 2010
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I'll be doing the Keynote Panel at the North Coast Mac User Group Mac Computer Expo in Petaluma, CA in October
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iFuture.
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Victor Cajiao, Jeff Gamet, Bryan Chaffin, Chris Christensen and I will discuss Apple changes and their meaning for the future
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It's free
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 9am – 5pm Petaluma Community Center
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Podcast Marketplace
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Circus Ponies
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Smile
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Cocoatech, Pathfinder 5
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Gazelle
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KamAlert
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Keep emails coming. Audio comments.
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281-622-4269 or 281-Mac-I-Am-9
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PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
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MacCast Forum
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Follow me on Twitter
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"That's Gravity" by Geoff Smith
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One from one of the original Podsafe artists
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From Musicalley
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Artists web site, has video.
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Buy album on iTunes
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EOL: Etch-A-Pad
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Cool new case makes your iPad look like a classic Etch-A-Sketch
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